Hard rockers Local H have returned to the studio to record the group’s first full-length album in nearly four years. And the band is allowing fans to check out the results.
The duo of Scott Lucas and Brian St. Clair filmed themselves during varying parts of the recording process and posted the clips to the band’s Facebook page (like this one). It looks like most of the new jams, such as “Another Februrary” and “Paddy Considine,” that surfaced during last year’s touring cycle will appear on the new album.
Local H have holed up at Bucktown’s Engine Studios with local veteran metal producer Sanford Parker, who has previously worked with Bloodiest, Pelican and Yakuza.
Experimental psych rockers Disappears joined Jesse Menendez, host of Vocalo (89.5 FM)’s The Music Vox, to discuss and preview two new cuts from the band’s upcoming album, Pre Language, due out March 1.
Vocalo just released a portion of the interview with Brian Case and Damon Carruesco, which took place on December 29. Case and Carruesco chose new tracks “Replicate” and “Fear of Darkness,” both of which rumble and reverberate with a hazy vigor. “Replicate,” (located at 8:30 in the interview) especially features a pretty bad-ass lead guitar solo.
Also during the interview, Case and Carruesco discuss the vagaries of the Disappears songwriting process, how Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley adds to the dynamic, and what “blissing out” during the band’s live shows really means.
Applicant for hardest working man in the biz, Netherfriends is set to release his next album Middle America on Feb. 7, 2012, via Kilo Records.
Of course, if you are a) super desperate for some Netherfriends action or b) a super fan of cassette tapes, you can order the album via Plustapes right now.
Middle America, says Kilo Records, will contain the first 12 songs from Netherfriends’ head honcho Shawn Rosenblatt’s ambitious “50 Songs in 50 States” project.
In celebration of Middle America’s release, Netherfriends is heading to Europe in mid-November after a week-long stay in Portland, Oregon. But no, that’s not all. Netherfriends has also released an never-before-heard remix of “Full of it” from his most project Netherfriends Does Nilsson.
Sometimes we’re so busy in telling you about all the great little bands from Chicago, the bigger ones get lost in the shuffle. Case in point is the news of Wilco announcing a new single and readying their follow up to 2009′s Wilco (The Album) possibly as early as September.
The first bit of news comes from Pitchfork.com, where it was reported that the band announced a new 7″ single, “I Might,” which will also feature a cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label.” Quite a fitting song choice seeing how the single will be release on Wilco’s own, newly formed dBpm Records.
The single will first be sold at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, which goes down this June 24 – 26 in North Adams, Massachusetts, with a wider release expected in July.
But that’s not all the news bubbling up in the Wilco camp. Last week, SPIN posted an in-depth feature interview with Jeff Tweedy regarding the band’s upcoming full-length, which may or may not be a double album and may or may not be titled Get Well Soon Everybody.
Before there was Montreal art rockers Braids, there was the Champaign-Urbana post-hardcore quartet Braid (singular). The band – featuring guitarist and vocalist Bob Nanna, guitarist Chris Broach, bassist Todd Bell and drummer Damon Atkinson – formed in 1993 and only a mere five years and two albums later released its most-popular record Frame and Canvas.
The band disbanded shortly after, but the combination of Braid’s hearty lyrics and Broach’s guttural wails paved the way for the wave of “emo” bands to come in the early half of 2000s. That decade saw the band reunite briefly in 2004 before continuing on with other musical endeavors: Nanna with Hey Mercedes and Broach with the Firebird Band.
With the dawn of a new decade, the band is back and already recording a new EP to be released with longtime label Polyvinyl. Loud Loop Press caught up with Braid’s Chris Broach and Bob Nanna to talk about the new EP, why they aren’t touring and what they’ve been up to since we last saw them in 2004.
Not even a year removed from the release of their rambunctious self-titled debut, Chicago’s fire-headed, bro-sis duo White Mystery have announced its follow-up, which is titled Blood & Venom and set to drop on April 20, 2011.
Additionally, the duo has announced a tour, White Mystery Shreds SXSW II, which kicks off next Monday at the Empty Bottle before they make their way to Iowa City, Iowa, in early March.
Of course, the tour takes White Mystery to Austin, Texas, for three shows during SXSW and comes to a conclusion on Wednesday, April 20, at Panchos in Chicago for the Blood & Venom release show.
Check out White Mystery’s full tour dates after the jump.
Before their latest release, I’m Going Away, The Fiery Furnaces’ last record was an over-stuffed 51-track, song spliced and mind numbing live album titled Remember. And before that was 2007’s hodgepodge of fuzzy guitars, psychedelic organs and off-kilter melodies, Widow City. So while the term “experimental” might be played out as a musical descriptor, The Fiery Furnaces hardly went out of their way to do anything near the realm of normal. Until now, that is.
Hard rockers Local H have returned to the studio to record the group’s first full-length album in nearly four years. And the band is allowing fans to check out the results.
Sometimes we’re so busy in telling you about all the great little bands from Chicago, the bigger ones get lost in the shuffle. Case in point is the news of 
Not even a year removed from the release of their 
